Cascade County health staff seek to start universal home‑visiting pilot despite state contract delays

Cascade County Public Health told the Board of Health on March 5 that it has been awarded a $350,764 Universal Home Visiting (UOHV) pilot grant but the county has not yet executed the state contract.

The health department’s maternal‑child health supervisor, who presented the update, said state contract language introduced a requirement for heightened cyber‑security coverage and initial weekly payroll terms that county counsel and state contract staff have since revised. “I just received a couple of weeks ago a new draft contract where they also removed to the insurance requirements or changed them,” the supervisor said. She said county legal staff continue to negotiate remaining terms and that the state has offered assistance to pay for cyber coverage in at least one other county.

The supervis…